Storms continue tonight across northern Mississippi and Alabama tonight ahead of an upper disturbance that is swinging through. A little after 8 p.m., moderate storms were over Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and morgan Counties. The heaviest rain extended from Moulton to … Continue reading →

Sunday evening, I had the pleasure of being in the press box at Regions Park for the final game of the Barons’ ten game homestand. The home team was taking on the Montgomery Biscuits in an important Southern League showdown. … Continue reading →

A complex weather situation across Alabama this afternoon. A northwesterly flow aloft is the dominant feature. A disturbance in this flow is producing thrunderstorms over Mississippi. The eastern extent of this activity extends into West Alabama. Light rain and showers … Continue reading →

1980’s Hurricane Allen was one of the first hurricanes that I got to really study. I was about to be a freshman at Samford University. My science project about hurricanes had gotten a lot of notoriety, going to the International … Continue reading →

Our attention is turning to the eastern Atlantic now, where tropical cyclone development is going to become more likely, perhaps as early as early this week. The GFS thinks that the disturbance which is now some 350 miles west southwest … Continue reading →

Isle Derniere, or Last Island, was a tiny resort on the Louisiana coast, about 110 miles southwest of New Orleans. The small spit of land was just twenty two miles long and less than one mile wide in most places. … Continue reading →

On August 5, 1980, Hurricane Allen brushed the island of Haiti, killing 220 people. On the 6th, the powerful hurricane was brushing past the island of Jamaica with winds of 100 mph. The hurricane’s storm surge washed the pilings from … Continue reading →

Always interesting watching a landfalling tropical storm or hurricane. Edouard is affording us that opportunity without a lot of fear of death and destruction. But satellite photos indicate the convection is increasing with Edouard. Radar images from Lake Charles show … Continue reading →

Smoke jumpers are specially trained firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight wildfires on difficult terrain. The best time to fight a forest fire is when it is small. Unfortunately, prior to 1939, it could take a long time … Continue reading →

Coastal radars have the center of Edouard under surveillance tonight. The last report from the recon plane showed a pressure of 999 mb. The storm doesn’t look any more organized on satellite. But the Doppler radars indicate that top winds … Continue reading →